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Is it okay to humiliate someone under your command if it helps motivate everyone else?
Think about the greater good. Can the ends justify the means? Should you treat everyone the same? Should a team look after all its members?

With regards to military to performance, treating people equally would be counterproductive. People should not be treated as if they can do everything equally, as this would prevent necessary skills from being developed. Different people will need to work on different things if they are to contribute most effectively to the group.

Everybody should be judged by the same standards and rewarded/punished accordingly for their performance. However, this is very different to using humiliation, which is corrosive to unit cohesion and can destroy loyalty.

Ted S. Westhusing, ‘Equality Within Military Organizations’, Journal of Military Ethics, 5 (2006), p9-10.

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